[Steven Donow]

Thanks for being the one to make what must have been a tough post to write, Ryan.

Full disclosure, the unnamed referee mentioned in the post was me. Coming home from Mt. Olive I was already tired/stressed to begin with, so after planning on going to bed at around 8, I ended up staying up later to 'clear the air' about some of the things that happened. Then I found this out and nearly had a heart attack. I spend about an hour looking through whatever match video was up from other Week 1s in hope that this was some sort of wider issue, but it wasn't.

My personal story with this is that I truly, vividly remember initially telling the FTA that it's 120, then looking in the manual because I knew that sounded off, and then confirming that it was 140 seconds-I also vividly remember seeing 140 seconds in the input box on the scorekeeper screen.

I'm really not surprised that no one noticed-I know that in my three years of being on drive team I very rarely looked at the game clock before the final minute, and as a ref, I very rarely even looked at the clock once autonomous ended.

As to what can be done? Nothing can be done other than FIRST mentioning it on weekly volunteer calls to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

Was it fair? This is a question that I've had mixed feelings on. It kinda is fair because teams all had equal time in matches against each other, but at the same time, it also isn't fair because it could have possibly interfered with the seeding at the event, and, if the tiebreakers need to go that far, MAR points.

This isn't really something that needs to be argued over or for teams to be angry with over; it's in the past and all that needs to be done is to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

EDIT: Now that I see some more posts following mine...can this thread please not be turned into a, 'let's talk trash about the game!' thread; this issue had nothing to do with the flaws people see in the game.